- Fiction in English, Fiction, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge (Fictitious character), Fiction, general
Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is not one of Wodehouse's better known creations, but he's one of the most disreputable. Ukridge is forever on the lookout to make a quick buck, either from staging accidents to claim on the insurance, starting dog training schools or managing the boxer "Battling" Billson.
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Comic, warm, effortless and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- First published
- 1924
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins, H. Jenkins, limited, Tauchnitz
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780880292771
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admir
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